Elon Musk's X has stirred confusion as some users woke up to free blue ticks on Thursday (Apr 4) morning. For those living under a rock, X, formerly Twitter, for years, used to offer blue tick verification badges to prominent accounts, including those of celebrities, politicians, journalists, and other influential people.

Back from the dead: Elon Musk's X sparks confusion with surprise return of free blue ticks

For the longest time everyone wanted a blue tick on their Twitter profile and then it became something that you can easily buy. Now in a latest development - you can now hide the blue tick, which is a new feature and has baffled all the users.

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Elon Musk’s Twitter finally did what it had decided to do over two weeks ago; remove its blue checks from verified accounts. This has left many confused over which accounts of celebrities, lawmakers, and so on, are real and which are not.

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Today, many woke up in shock as they saw their blue tick gone. After a lot of delays, the new Twitter policy came into effect today, and the verified blue tick from the accounts of legacy users like celebrities, media personalities, and others vanished on Twitter.

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After Elon Musk's Twitter takeover, there has been a rise in conspiracy theorists who were earlier banned from the microblogging platform for peddling their false narratives.

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The New York Times will not pay a monthly fee to get verified check mark status on Twitter, a spokesperson for the newspaper said. Organizations will have to shell out $1,000 a month to obtain gold check marks while individuals can get blue checks for a starting price of $7 in the United States.

The New York Times says it won't pay for Twitter verified account badge

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has announced a blue tick shake-up. From April 15, only verified users will be able to vote in Twitter polls. U.S. has decided to go forward with a plan to ban TikTok on federal devices due to security concerns. Is the future of Twitter & TikTok in peril? Molly Gambhir reports.

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Blue ticks on Twitter have been something of an online prestige. The blue tick gave users a certain credibility, status and x-factor in increasingly competitive online world.

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Twitter Blue users may soon be able to hide the blue tick or verified badge, the little symbol displayed next to the account's name on the profile page, as per reports.

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For users in India, Twitter has launched its premium membership service. Twitter Blue, the paid subscription allows users early access to innovations that the platform introduces as well as the desired Blue Tick added next to their profile names.

Indian phone users to pay $11 per month for Twitter blue

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has announced a more expensive ad-free subscription plan in a bid to massively reduce costs while building up revenue. In a series of tweets on Saturday, the tech billionaire said that he is taking steps for a zero ads experience on the microblogging platform.

Elon Musk plans to roll out expensive Twitter subscription for ad-free experience

Over the last few months, Elon Musk has been criticised several times for introducing the paid-for verification feature on Twitter. There are concerns that the paid blue tick could be misused by people. And to the surprise of many, the Twitter accounts of various Taliban officials and supporters were recently found to be verified. Here's more.

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According to reports, Taliban have started using Twitter's paid subscription-based feature Twitter Blue, which will enable them to use blue ticks on their accounts.

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Twitter plans to charge $11 per month for a Twitter Blue subscription on the iPhone in order to account for the 30 percent cut that Apple takes from in-app purchases.

Twitter to charge $11 per month for Blue subscription on iOS app

Days after controversies and trolling surrounded Twitter, it would be rolling out its new feature of verified service next week. The social media company will launch different coloured checks for indivisuals, companies or even governments.

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Twitter has spoken and Elon Musk has announced that he will give people what they want. After a landslide of Twitter users voted yes to Musk's question regarding the reinstatement of suspended accounts, the billionaire has announced "amnesty" for the users in question.

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A top US Republican senator has asked Twitter's new owner Elon Musk to conduct a threat assessment at the social media platform in order to better protect US user data.

Senior US senator asks Musk to do risk assessment of Twitter over privacy threats

In a much-debated move, Twitter's new owner recently reinstated the account of controversial figure former US president Donald Trump, now Elon Musk is asking his followers if the social media platform should offer a "general amnesty" to other suspended accounts.

Elon Musk's latest poll comes with an offer of 'general amnesty' for suspended accounts

As the new Chief Twit Elon Musk welcomed back to Twitter the formerly banned Donald Trump and Ye a.k.a., Kanye West, a coalition of civil rights activists on Monday urged advertisers to issue statements about pulling their ads off the social media platform.

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After much chaos and confusion, Elon Musk has decided to hold off the relaunch of the 'Blue Verified' badge for Twitter. The Twitter boss said he will be suspending the $8 subscription plan until there is high confidence in stopping impersonation.

Elon Musk suspends paid verification 'blue tick' badge for Twitter because of this reason

Continuing his 'back-and-forth', Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday said the blue tick subscription service will be relaunched on November 29. The announcement comes a few days after Twitter halted the service, owing to a messy rollout.

Elon Musk gives this date for the relaunch of paid Twitter blue tick subscription service

The rollercoaster ride that is Elon Musk's Twitter is on another low with the much-awaited, paid subscription of the so-called "Twitter blue" subscription stopped, however, the billionaire has now revealed that the service will probably come back by the "end of next week.

Elon Musk reveals Twitter blue-tick will probably come back by the 'end of next week'

Elon Musk is fighting back rise of impersonator accounts in Twitter, ordering that such handles should have the word 'parody' in them, not just in the bios. Musk's latest tweet in this regard came as Twitter’s trust and safety team is grappling with a surge of impersonator accounts after the “Chief Twit” revamped the microblogging site’s verification system.

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